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A deadly royal favourite?.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

BBC History Magazine

The letters that reveal Horatio Nelson’s secrets

Queen Victoria behind closed doors.

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story.

Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations.

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home.

Second World War

The wartime wireless and the lost voice of Cyril Lakin

Migrating to Britain.

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma.

The Jarrow March.

Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles.

My favourite place: Florence

Sveti Georgi (St George) a Roman-era church is Sofia's oldest preserved building

ExploreSofia, Bulgaria: an emperor’s home from Rome.

The White House, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

QuizHow much do you know about US presidents?.

Professor Ronald Hutton © Jeni Nott

Witchcraft through the ages.

Woodcut of a meal shared at a witches' Sabbath. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Ronald Hutton on the Witch.

High Victorian style garden designed by James Bateman. (Getty Images)

History explorerVictorian gardens.

Edward the Black Prince receiving from his father, King Edward III, the conquered provinces of France gained during the Hundred Years' War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Black Prince: a true prince of darkness?.

A proponent of same-sex marriage protests outside the Houses of Parliament, 3 June 2013. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Sexual Offences Act: a gay revolution?.

An illustration of a public execution at Newgate, London, late 18th century. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The LibraryA deadly obsession in Victorian London.

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758–1805).

A Calcutta pavement, c1961

After Partition: colony politics and the rise of communism in Bengal.

Icelandic murder mystery.

Hannibal’s war elephants are defeated at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. (AKG)

How Hannibal beat the Alps but couldn't beat Rome.

British prime minister Winston Churchill greeting the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. From left to right: Princess Elizabeth II; the Queen Mother; Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Buckingham Palace’s balcony: a focal point for national celebration.

China in World War Two.

Winston Graham's Poldark novels remind us of aspects of the past that might otherwise remain in the shadows, says Hannah Greig. (Image credit: Mammoth screen/BBC)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode nine

The Koh-i-Noor.